Coimbatore: Karnataka Police arrested another person from Cheyur near Avinashi in the Tirupur district on Tuesday in connection with the Gangrape case in Mysuru.
With this, the police have arrested six people, including a 17-year-old boy from Thalavadi in the Erode district, in this case.
The police identified the defendant as a baby alias vijayakumar, 26, a resident of Thanneerpandal at Mangarasuvalayapalayam near Cheyur.
“A special police team from Karnataka arrested him with the help of Cheyur police when he lived in his relatives’ residence on the AtraThur near Avinashi on Monday night.
He has been taken to Mysuru for further interrogation on Tuesday,” said a police officer.
Karnataka police previously arrested NuruGesan, 22, S Joseph, 28, S Prakash alias Aravind, 21, and a 17-year-old boy from the limit of the Cheyur police station in the District of Tirupur and Boopathi, 28, from Thalavadi in Erode Regency, This Saturday.
The clerk said all six were loadmen and they used to travel to Mysuru in trucks loaded with bananas to dismantle the same thing.
On August 24, they raped a college girl in Chamundi’s hills near Mysuru.
TNN.